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<p><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/about.php">Pennsound&#39;s mission</a> is to collect, and make available to the public free of charge, recordings of contemporary authors and poets reading their own work, as well as to preserve recordings of authors from the past.</p>
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<p>The collection is weighted heavily towards the poetry side of literature and toward avant garde/academic rather than popular writers. So, you won&rsquo;t find <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=collins,%20billy&amp;index=.GH">Billy Collins</a>, <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=sparks,%20nicholas&amp;index=.GH">Nicholas Sparks</a> and <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=oliver,%20mary&amp;index=.TH">Mary Oliver</a> here, but you will find such contemporary heavyweights as <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=ashbery,%20john&amp;index=.GH">John Ashbery</a>, <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=auster,%20paul&amp;index=.GH">Paul Auster</a>&nbsp; and <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=adrienne%20rich&amp;index=.GH">Adrienne Rich</a>, as well as bold-faced names from the past like <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=f%20scott%20fitzgerald&amp;index=.GH">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a> reading <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=keats,%20john&amp;index=.GH">Keats</a>, <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=zukofsky,%20louis&amp;index=.GH">Louis Zukofsky</a> reading his own stuff along with some <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=catullus&amp;index=.GH">Catullus,</a> and <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=stein,%20gertrude&amp;index=.GH">Gertrude Stein</a> reading Gertrude Stein, but also <em>being</em> Gertrude Stein in that particular way that only she can.<img alt="Screenshot from Pennsound" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6166580813_fd93df034b_o.jpg" style="width: 277px; height: 167px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; float: right;" /></p>
<p>Other features you&rsquo;ll find on Pennsound:</p>
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a wide selection from the Electronic Poetry Center including facsimiles with cover art and illustrations of rare books by <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=barnes,%20djuna&amp;index=.GH">Djuna Barnes</a>, <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=mallarme,%20stephane&amp;index=.GH">Stephane Mallarm&eacute;</a> and others.</li>
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Reproductions of selections from the seminal <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=vorticism&amp;index=.GH">Vorticist</a> magazine, <strong>Blast</strong>..</li>
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Live from The Ear Inn &ndash; recordings of live performances from the home of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that span the years 1978 - 1994.</li>
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Performances from the <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/">Kelly Writers&rsquo; House</a> and other important spoken word venues.</li>
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podcasts, webcasts and short subject video.</li>
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<p>I don&#39;t feel I can let you go without a warning. it is very easy to get lost in Pennsound. In fact, I&#39;m pretty sure that while researching this post I stumbled onto a weird temporal rift. One minute I would be diligently clicking away, and the next I would find myself at my desk with two or three hours missing that I could not account for. Eerie.<br />
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If you know of other entertaining and educational websites that would be appropriate for this space, please drop us a line. As always corrections, rebuttals, invective and suggestions for future posts are gratefully accepted. Thanks for reading.</p>
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